US Patent Issued to Acushnet on Feb. 3 for "Golf ball having non-spherical dimples" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,449, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Golf ball having non-spherical dimples" was invented by Courtney N. Engle (Fall River, Mass.), Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.) and Nicholas M. Nardacci (Barrington, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf ball has a generally spherical surface and a plurality of dimples separated by a land area formed on the surface. The plurality of dimples includes a plurality of non-spherical dimples each having a non-axially symmetric plan shape, a varying edge angle, and a geometric centroid of the non-axially symmetric plan shape (GC). Each dimple cross-section of each...